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- showgun, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22wtf are you talking about?
- hmemcpy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17All your base are belong to Google.
- 52tease, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You just don't understand the concept behind Google Base, do you? This is a TOTALLY FREE marketplace for the mom and pop shop to make their wares available to a much larger audience. They don't even take an affiliate cut of the sales they send your way. This seems much more egalitarian than the other shopping aggregator sites that currently exist.
- carltonsmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Google can offer it for free because they have been creative in finding revenue streams outside of charging the end user, or even the vendor in cases like these. They found a superior way to do business that benefits both the vendor and the consumer and is supported by ad revenue. Cry me a river for other companies with an inferior business model. If they want to compete they should get creative and find alternative revenue streams, like Google does.
- thefreshbeats, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Of course I understand Google Base! NASA and Google are creating a moon base.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@ryuseijin: Haiku's are 5-7-5.
- roosterjm2k2, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12If big business can do it better than the mom and pop, than so be it.
- lsatkins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Can someone please explain to me how this is different then a normal google search? Is it because you can narrow down the categories that are searched? Who exactly does this hurt by them having a search like this?
- thefreshbeats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Nicely put, chrono13. It's nice to see an educated response! I was afraid for a moment that I'd need to abandon my argument with a moon-base comment!
- bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@VulcanMike
so Google has a smarter way of doing something and they should be stopped because there smart idea might squash competition. i am sorry but who here is stifling creativity the monopolies or you?
Also as far as walmart being bad for communities i call bull *****. i was pore growing up and there were times that if there wasn't a walmart to buy close from dirt cheap I wouldn't have had any thing to wear. also compare its job benefits and pay to a mom and pop store. walmarts pay sucks yes but it is better than most other retail stores. - ace77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The blog describes the changes to the interface, the home page no.
- mrgono3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Azur
Why would you think thats a Haiku? - szembek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3blog spam... here's where you should have linked to.
http://base.google.com/ - Cglass, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I dunno about you, but even though it said that all 8 of those 20 year old guys were straight, looking at a search pages for males just gave off a gay vibe...
- 52tease, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Maybe because it's NOT the blog interface. You've been marked as lame!
(of course, you've obviously just realized that yourself and pulled your own statement. At least you realize you're lame.) - chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4@thefreshbeats
Real innovation and breakthroughs usually come from two or more major companies competing over many years.
Monopolies are no fun, harmful to their controlled market and in general stifle innovation and lead to inflated prices and various lock-ins that further cement the monopolies hold on their given markets.
Big business is not bad. Big business is the reason you live in a manner well beyond what kings and queens lived in long ago.
Corrupt businesses, and more aptly, corrupt government (mine... the USA) that allow for predatory actions that are harmful to customers and sometimes harmful to every single citizen of that country is the problem.
Hypothetically imagine that there was a very expensive, long, and complex court trial against the largest, and in many ways, the most damaging monopoly in recent history. Now imagine in this trial if the CEO lies under oath, video tape evidence is faked, and in the end... it is clear that the company is guilty of massive anti-trust and years of harm to its own customers, unlawful harm to its competitors, overpricing, sub-standard products designed first to lock out competition even to the lack of security and further harm of its customers.
Imagine then that it is not only in the best interest of the citizens of your country, the consumers of these products, but also the entire world and the future security of information and technology that this company be split in two. This would allow the company to keep it's monopoly position, but with the least harm to the company or customers, limit this monopoly's ability to prevent competition and limit its ability to harm its customers and the industry in which it operates as a whole.
You would imagine that it would be simple. Split the company in two.
But this corrupt government overturned the best interests, overturned the legal, and rightful decision. Because of greed and corruption.
A free market sounds wonderful in theory. But it doesn't take long for one company, without laws, or at least with enough money that the laws no longer apply to it, to begin to crush all competition and then this single company is the only market. It then buys the market area and bans competition.
Corrupt governments let this happen. Then refuse to fix it. A well regulated market, where each company has to abide by a set of rules that says that they will not break basic laws or do massive harm to its customers, is a free market. A market where competition is ensured.
We don't have such a "free market". Our "free market" is owned by a half-dozen companies that define the rules and define which laws will apply to them, and which laws will apply only to those who would attempt to compete with them. In our free market, owned by these companies, competition is illegal. That is the nature of an unregulated free market. - VulcanMike, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5@52tease
Google Base is free to users because Google can afford to do so. Yes, it's great for sellers because it's free, but it's bad for competitors because it's free. Competitors can't give away things for free because they need to make money on their services. If Google successfully offers it for free, competitors will not make money offering their services and will thus not be able to compete. That's the whole concept behind *worrying* about services like Google Base.
Like the WalMart example, when we browse the web in 10 years, we may look at Google everywhere we go. That's great for Google. That's great for its investors. But is it good for the Internet? You may prefer the online equivalent of superstores, downtowns full of independent businesses that are no longer thriving and big blacktopped parking lots, but it's good to at least acknowledge that there is a price for "free." - ryuseijin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1if you look at the sexual orientation on the personals one they only list
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lol - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2.
- tmilam, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO GOOGLE.
...ok, i see that one has already been used. sorry about that. allow me to make amends:
in soviet russia, google bases YOU. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1O FFS DIGG! MISPLACED AGAIN!
Bury - another post in the wrong place at the right time! - thefreshbeats, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3errr, cat walking on the keyboard
she watches too much colbert report O.o - thefreshbeats, on 10/12/2007, -20/+2It's not that I'm anti-big business... it's just sad to see such a profitable company find the need to completely destroy companies that it doesn't even compete with... until now.
That's why the top 2% of the world owns everything.... this type of business strategy. We're just seeing it in action right now. I can't complain, as I'm in the demographic. It's just suprising that so many people are for this... 98% should be against. - thefreshbeats, on 10/12/2007, -22/+2This reminds me of how big business ran all the mom and pop shops out of business... only this time it's Google, and you know they have friends in Washington... might be good now, but this will hurt us later.
Unless you have Google stock o.O
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